KIM Hyung Ho, Professor of General Surgery at SNU Bundang Hospital succeeded in gastric cancer surgery. Until now gastric surgery accompanies resecting a huge proportion of the stomach, including lymph node even for early-stage patients. To prevent such excessive removal, Professor Kim focused his study on minimizing t...

KANG Ki Hyun, Ph.D student of Technology Management Economics and Policy Program at SNU College of Engineering, was awarded the grand prize of International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) 2011. KANG wrote a paper titled"External Technology Sourcing & Internal R&D Capabilities", which explains ...

LEE Sung Keun, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at SNU College of Natural Sciences, and his research team, discovered the principles on how the atomic constitution of magma changes when under high pressure.This research will help finding more about the beginning stages of the earth formation. The...

JUNG Byung Sul, Professor of Korean Language and Literature at SNU College of Humanities, gave a series of history lecture at Munhakdongnae Café, an online cafe at http://cafe.naver.com/mhdn, which became very popular to the public. At his lecture 'Power and the Man, the Truth Behind the Prince Sado's ...

The Brain as a Percussion InstrumentSNU Medical School Reveals Relationship Between the Brain and Sounds Koreans have long believed in prenatal education, 'taegyo', like most other cultures over the centuries. Then, this belief was dismissed in the modern age as not being scientific. However, modern scientists are now ...

Korean Traditional Child-Play Found to Reduce StressKang Do-Hyung’s Team (Dept. of Neuropsychiatry, SNU Hospital) Says Doridori Reduces Stress One of the words Korean babies hear most after they’re born is “doridori (도리도리)”. It is a mimetic word for shaking the head left and right a definite number of times. Doridori, ...

Professor BANG Yung-Jue presented his clinical trial on lung cancer patients at the Prestigious Plenary Session of the 2010 Annual Meeting of American Society of Oncology (ASCO). Professor Bang has reported that a new drug called crizotinib has been highly effective on one type of lung cancer patients. It was discovere...

SNU Hospital of Bundang found that the childbirth raises the stroke risk. Professor YOON Byung-Woo reported in his paper that going through childbirth more than once appears to raise a woman's risk of having a stroke due to bleeding in the brain.Yoon's team conducted a direct comparison of women who did and d...

Professor KIM Jin-soo at Dept. of Chemistry has developed a new gene-engineering method that may help treat acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. Kim has used a"genetic scissor" called"zinc finger nucleases" to precisely remove human chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) that acts as a conduit for the human immuno...

Professor KWON Sung-hoon's research team developed a high-resolution patterning technique that produces multiple sturctural colors within seconds by mimicking the structural colors found in butterfly wings and peacock feathers. Kwon said that he has overcome limitations in previous approaches to demonstrate rapid produ...

Professor KIM Ki-bum has developed a"nanopore ion transistor" which can be used for interpreting DNA sequencing results and controling biomolecules.He succeeded to create a new ion transistor with 1~2 nanometer of nanopores. He used electron beam lithograhpy and atomic layer deposition for a sturcture of 100 nm membran...

A minority tribe in the city of 'Bauer-Bauer', located in Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, has chosen Korean alphabet Hangeul as the official alphabet to transcribe its aboriginal language.With a population of around 60,000, the tribe stood to lose its language because it had no alphabet to transcribe it. SNU professors of l...